Album of Celestial Abandon
Album of Celestial Abandon is a studio album by Neon and the Argie Bees based on the OG RU/AU of characters created by The-F0X. Currently unreleased, it is an experimental mixture of classical and world music compiled into a "rock opera"-like musical concept album that serves as an unofficial interpretation of events inspired by the lore of that universe.
| Album of Celestial Abandon | |
|---|---|
| Studio album by | |
| Released | TBA |
| Recorded | 2023 |
| Studio | Studio RGB-Newt |
| Genre | |
| Length | 55:26 |
| Label | Fishal Project Records |
| Producer | |
| Compiler | NeonWabbit |
The first half of the album mainly focuses on Yin and Yang and the war of the dragons, while the latter half performs a timeskip to the main events of the RU, hundreds of years in the future: first to focus on Kari, Sketch, and the messengers, then even further in time to House Abaddon, where the AU mostly takes place. A bonus, final track on the album wraps up the story from the first half.
As the focus of the project shifted to the story, rather than the music itself, initial base compositions of the tracks were not composed by hand, but rather generated using the AI tool AIVA, then manually re-arranged note-by-note and re-performed on a MIDI keyboard by Darien Brice Dickinson using the Native Instruments Kontakt 7 instrument library, and original human-written lyrics and narration were then added and performed to most songs to decrease the amount of AI involvement in the final project, make it "less offensive to human ears", and have it so that anything inspired by the AI-generated output didn't just "sound like a keysmash".
The album is to be made available for free, as it is fanart centred around characters not owned by NeonWabbit, it includes works generated by AI, and was only made to test the current process of recording, mastering, and releasing an entire album.
Background
Composition
Production
Album artwork
Release
Reception
Track listing
Base tracks composed by AIVA (generation profiles listed as genres below); additional composition and arrangement by Darien Brice Dickinson.
Original lyrics and narration written and performed by Darien Brice Dickinson.
| No. | Title | Notes | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Welcome Yin, Welcome Yang" | Genre: Epic World Symphonic | 1:58 |
| 2. | "The Two Would Spin in Circles All Day" | Genre: Mallets & Orchestra | 3:18 |
| 3. | "Rei Begins to Suspect Yin Might Be Evil" | Genre: Strings & Brass | 1:01 |
| 4. | "YIN IS EVIL!" | Genre: Heavy Metal - Djent | 1:51 |
| 5. | "Yang Confronts Yin" | Genre: Ambient Acoustic | 3:01 |
| 6. | "The Fault Amongst the Stars" | Genre: Interstellar | 4:30 |
| 7. | "But I Thought We Were Friends" | Genre: Solo Strings (Fantasy) | 5:21 |
| 8. | "The Gift of a Dragon's Love" | Genre: Christmas | 1:25 |
| 9. | "Queen Yin Summons Her Dark Army" | Genre: Halloween | 0:49 |
| 10. | "Thus Come Marching Yin" | Genre: Epic Dragonborn (Fantasy) | 1:12 |
| 11. | "A Hundred Tears Later" | Genre: Solo Piano (Ambient) | 3:02 |
| 12. | "Our Secret Place" | Genre: Traditional Folk | 1:27 |
| 13. | "There Will Always Be Darkness Where There Is Light" | Genre: Tavern Music | 2:08 |
| 14. | "The Seperation of Twins" | Genre: Solo Piano (Cinematic) | 2:48 |
| 15. | "Flight of the Messengers" | Genre: Solo Strings (Modern Cinematic) | 2:25 |
| 16. | "Spirit Plane" | Genre: Ambient Hybrid | 5:27 |
| 17. | "Poem of the Princess with a Paper Crown" | Genre: Meditation | 0:32 |
| 18. | "A Typical Morning / What the Staff Have for Us Today" | Genre: Strings & Woodwinds | 3:16 |
| 19. | "Academy Induction Ceremony" | Genre: Epic Orchestra (Modern Cinematic) | 5:13 |
| 20. | "Celestial Abandon" | Genre: Solo Piano (Soft Cinematic) | 3:01 |
| 21. | "Vale Yin, Vale Yang" (or "Harmony at Last") | Bonus Track; Based on Welcome Yin, Welcome Yang | 1:41 |
Personnel
Additional musicians
Release history
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